Jesse Pesta is a writer and photographer based in New York, and an editor at The Wall Street Journal. He has lived and worked as a journalist in New York, Hong Kong and India.

His photos have been exhibited in juried shows and galleries in and around New York City.

As an editor at The Wall Street Journal, Jesse has supervised teams of writers world-wide and edited dozens of the Journal's iconic front-page articles, on topics including:

Bride kidnappers in Vietnam, murderous midwives in India, ham-obsessed people, financial derivatives, oversized stretch limos, coffee made out of fox dung, government informants, vanishing crude oil and chicken-catching machines.

As a reporter he has covered politics and industry in India, the massacre of Nepal's royal family, and the British army's unhappy mercenaries. In 2001 he reported on the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks from Islamabad, Pakistan.

Jesse's photos have been shown at the Photographic Gallery, Front St., New York; Chrystie Street Gallery, Chrystie St., New York; ABC No Rio, Rivington St., New York; the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts; and the Edward Hopper House, Nyack, N.Y.

More photography, as well as works of short fiction, can be seen at this art/photography site produced with Maureen O'Hara Pesta and Abigail Pesta.

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